when even its pacific benevolence
is watered down by murder--
now if you stand on Washington Mall
it's no longer a number one at all,
but a stuck up middle finger
to mark the exile of Ezra.

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Ezra, also called Ezra the Scribe and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe and a priest born in Babylon (Iraq). According to the Hebrew Bible he returned from Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem.